In the film Fight Club, the real name of the protagonist (Ed Norton’s character) is never revealed. Many believe the reason behind this anonymity is to give "Jack" more of an everyman quality.
- Brian Wallace
The city's proposal will use rain gardens, porous pavement, green roofs, and additional tree planting to deal with the water. According the Philadelphia Water Department, implementing these changes will generate more jobs and higher property values, as well as decrease the energy used.
- Derek Markham
"This may seem like a little inside baseball, but bear with me, because it will directly affect some of your favorite blogs. At my blog, Pam's House Blend, my contributors and I have inboxes overflowing with emails asking us to cover this story or that event -- from advocacy organizations, tips from readers, PR firms, and the news media. It's pretty clear that the equality rights movement is highly dependent on blogs and citizen journalism to analyze, report and advocate in the unique way that we do. Many of these LGBT-based blogs are done as a labor of love because there's certainly not enough money out there to quit our day jobs. Bloggers like myself, who subsidize the site with an unrelated day job are about to get a big F-You from Chuck Schumer if the roof isn't raised. Ad revenue is irrelevant here, by the way; you have to be employed by an entity to be covered."
- Neal Jansons
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From the page: "Here on the endlessly rolling and tussocky terrain of northwest Canada, where man has hunted caribou since the Stone Age, the vast antlered herds are fast growing thin. And it's not just here. Across the tundra 1,500 kilometers (1,000 miles) to the east, Canada's Beverly herd, numbering more than 200,000 a decade ago, can barely be found today."
- Derek Markham
Frogs are some of my favorite creatures. There's just something about them that is so cool. With their slimy skin, dramatic transformation from tadpole to frog, and their predatory ways, I guess they appeal to my inner 10-year-old. Some frogs take that appeal to the extreme. The Khorat big-mouthed frog pictured here is one of them. Scientists with World Wildlife Fund recently discovered this awesome new species on an expedition in Thailand. It's big, aggressive and has a taste for birds. It even has fangs. The folks at treehugger.com have posted a great article on the expedition and this fanged...
- Danielle Brigida